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by hot_gril 2y ago
This sounds like canarying, which is fine
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by hot_gril 2y ago
They do it anyway
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by hot_gril 2y ago
This is also true for cryptocurrency. There's always a testnet, you use it whenever possible cause xact fees are high, but it never works the same as real.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, this has been tested every which way by now, the entire point of in-person work is to monitor employees. My manager told me outright that the only reason I can stay remote is, unlike most of the team, I didn't seem to "disap
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Then who has the best search engine?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Are you talking about San Francisco? I don't know, probably.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah that too, DRM is super onerous.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
"Best" for the most customers, even if it ticks off some relatively small group of people. They kill old games so they can make new ones and not have to outright do subscription models. Signing a petition doesn't cost anythin
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Right, you consider the pros and cons and buy it. Everyone will always want every pro, but when tradeoffs have to be made, which features get the axe? I think they're already making the best tradeoffs. The video game industry is quite
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by hot_gril 2y ago
You could call it a market inefficiency since the media would actually be worth the higher prices to people if they didn't have a way to pirate. So as long as piracy is technically not very hard, it'll always be relevant. Today, y
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I can only name one example where Bing gives better results, but it's only because Google intentionally doesn't: 123movies
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yes. I would characterize a company that mainly generates revenue through ads as an ad company.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Of course nobody wants a game shut down, but they'll still buy online games knowing full well that they won't last forever. It's not much of a consideration.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I was thinking this too, but on second thought, I can't imagine Apple making Google the default for free under any circumstances. That's a ton of free referrals, in a way the best advertising slot that exists on an iPhone.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
This doesn't seem like a disagreement. They still have the best search engine at the moment.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
There's nothing uninformed about the above comment. The petition just says games, doesn't specify that they're singleplayer or anything like that. What the petitioner says on his own blog is separate.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, stuff like this is why I wouldn't feel the urge to play new video games even if I had time. Even if everything works fine, I don't want to wait on updates.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The petition is worded generally. Just says video games should stay in a working state. The comment above talks about a remote killswitch in particular, which suggests a portion of the game that doesn't reasonbly require online access
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Playing an old video game is among the least necessary things I can think of.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It has. Very few consumers care about this, otherwise LTS guarantees would be a way to boost sales, or publishers would build more of a reputation around that. If there were actually a regulation as proposed, it'd be "tyranny of t
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by hot_gril 2y ago
What singleplayer game has exercised a remote kill switch?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Lightning is the only charging cable that manages to stop working after a while, plus it has some kind of DRM bs. It can rest in pieces, in many cases literally.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The biggest defining factor is they have a lot of spare time to push dumb agendas and don't listen to people who have less time to deal with it. I'm not sure what a techbro is, thought it was just a techie who goes to the gym.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
There are definitely fancier HOAs with bigger and nicer parks and common spaces than the others, and I don't think it's because they have different city rules.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Not sure about the resumé part, but I've seen these authoritarian volunteers. They still don't ruin everything. And I think my local church has enough of them that they cancel each other out :D
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I recently moved. Most of my new friends aren't from here, they came here for work, but they consider it their own city now and are part of the community. It's different in a "commuter city" like San Francisco. That mean
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by hot_gril 2y ago
What single entity did you have in mind? An HOA will spend dues on parks, a regular city will spend taxes on parks. A luxury apartment will have common spaces or even activities. They make these expenditures because enough residents will pa
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I remember the day in high school I saw a guy, who used to bully me and call me a nerd, playing multiplayer Minecraft on his laptop instead of talking to his buddies. Made me realize the bullies were right about one thing.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
"it's considered taboo to express a love of the USA" is not really true in most of the country. I moved out of one of the few places where it is.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Anything is economically viable if enough people want it.

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